Notes



Chapter 1: The First Thinking Machinery

  1. Quoted in Neil Gershenfeld, When Things Start to Think. New York: Henry Holt, 1999, p. 125.
  2. Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," Mind , October 1950. www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html.
  3. Gary Kasparov, "The Day That I Sensed a New Kind of Intelligence," Time , March 25, 1996, p. 55.
  4. Quoted in James M. Pethokoukis, "Robotrading 101," U.S. News & World Report , January 28, 2002, p. 23.

Chapter 2: Mind Versus Metal

  • 5. Gershenfeld, When Things Start to Think , p. 123.
  • 6. Quoted in David Freedman, Brainmakers . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, p. 22.
  • 7. Rodney Brooks, Flesh and Machines . New York: Pantheon, 2002, p. 46.

Chapter 3: Everyday AI

  • 8. Quoted in Attila Narin, "Myths of Artificial Intelligence," December 1993. www.narin.com.
  • 9. Quoted in Charles Wardell, "The Souped-Up Kitchen," Popular Science , March 2004, p. 30.
  • 10. Quoted in Stephen Cass, "Mind Games," Spectrum Online , December 2002. www.spectrum.ieee.org.
  • 11. Quoted in Cass, "Mind Games."

Chapter 4: AI and Robotics

  • 12. Quoted in Sean Price, "Robot World," National Geographic Kids , January 2003, p. 28.
  • 13. Quoted in Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, Robo Sapiens . Boston: MIT Press, 2000, p. 111.
  • 14. Quoted in National Science Foundation, "Search-and-Rescue Robots Practice Emergency Response to Simulated Earthquakes," 2001. www.sciencedaily.com.
  • 15. Quoted in Ramon Lopez, "Daddy Warbots," Popular Science , March 2004, p. 65.
  • 16. Quoted in Jim Wilson, "Tiny Robots Go to War," Popular Mechanics , March 2004, p. 13.

Chapter 5: In Pursuit of the Mechanical Man

  • 17. Quoted in Clifton Coles, "Humanoid Robots: Functional and Fun," Futurist , January/February 2004, p. 12.
  • 18. Quoted in Discover , "The Future of Humanoid Robots," March 2000, p. 84.
  • 19. Quoted in "The Future of Humanoid Robots," p. 84.
  • 20. Quoted in Gershenfeld, When Things Start to Think , p. 135.
  • 21. Brooks, Flesh and Machines , p. 91.
  • 22. Quoted in Thomas Hayden, "The Age of Robots," U.S. News & World Report , April 23, 2001, p. 47.

Chapter 6: The Future of AI

  • 23. Quoted in Chuck Squatriglia, "New Breed of U.S. Spy Is a Tiny Fly," TechGeek , June 27, 2002. www.techgeek.com.
  • 24. Quoted in Mark Baard, "AI to Assist Alzheimer's Patients," Wired News , 2002. www.wired.com.
  • 25. Quoted in Lori Valigra, "Looking Technology in the Eye," Christian Science Monitor , February 5, 2004. www.csmonitor.com.
  • 26. Quoted in Megan McRainey, "Georgia Tech Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Control Robotic Device," Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. www.gatech.edu.
  • 27. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot . New York: Doubleday, 1950, unpaged.
  • 28. Quoted in Kathleen Melymuka, "Good Morning, Dave…The Defense Department Is Working on a Self-Aware Computer," Computerworld , November 11, 2002, unpaged.
  • 29. Quoted in Alexandra Hanson-Harding, "Smart Machines," Junior Scholastic , September 17, 2001, p. 6.

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